Biathlon IBU World Championships 2017

[Bohemia 1,447]

It's not the world championships, it's the kindergarten 

They should keep their opinions outside the championships, this is really childish and disrespectful...

Edited February 9, 2017 by Bohemia

[dcro 10,210]

5 minutes ago, Xander said:

Loginov apparently intentionally didn't turn aside.

Russians flied a protest and they watched it from different cameras & admitted there was nothing intentional from Fourcade.

 

I don't know. On this video it very much looks like he was watching and following Loginov during the whole exchange.

 

http://video.eurosport.com/biathlon/world-championships/2016-2017/martin-fourcade-collides-with-alexandr-loginov-puts-him-on-his-bum_vid958479/video.shtml

[Xander 53]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

I don't know. On this video it very much looks like he was watching and following Loginov during the whole exchange.

 

http://video.eurosport.com/biathlon/world-championships/2016-2017/martin-fourcade-collides-with-alexandr-loginov-puts-him-on-his-bum_vid958479/video.shtml

On this video it  looks like Maillet appeared in front of him (while Quentin was moving to the right like he was supposed to) and Fourcade wanted to take Shipulin's position (at 11th second) but Shipulin moved to the right from Loginov and appeared right in front of Fourcade. He had no other choice but to move in front of Loginov.

What surprised me is that Loginov kept going closer to the center instead of moving to the left. Unintentionally of course.

[Xander 53]

According to our president of the federation 7 Kazakh biathletes are under suspicion after the DNA test.

Edited February 9, 2017 by Xander

[Gianlu33 5,276]

42 minutes ago, Xander said:

According to our president of the federation 7 Kazakh biathletes are under suspicion after the DNA test.

 

These World Championships are becoming a comic TV series   I haven't comment for this..

[rybak 3,303]

 

"Pensez vous que ce soit intentionnel? Je ne risquerais jamais la disqualification de mes coéquipiers quelle que soit la raison! Merci pour tout vos messages pour cette belle médaille d'argent.

 

Do you really think it was intentional? I will never risk the disqualification of my teammates for any reason! Thanks for all your messages regarding this beautiful silver medal.

The sport will go on ;-)"

Edited February 9, 2017 by rybak

[hckošice 15,522]

Tomorrow Womens 7.5km Sprint Start List

[dcro 10,210]

Well, Fourcade's FB page got a lot of new likes after all this.

 

It's like a stock market going wild.

 

Edited February 9, 2017 by dcro

[Dmitry 92]

Next races will be more popular than they could be. 

[ahjfcshfghb 294]

Have to say I agree with Federer. What Fourcde did was very immature, especially for a world-class athlete.

I bet the mixed relay will be interesting :O